Processing and Shipping

Specimen Processing:

Centrifuge and leave sample in serum separator tube. If necessary, aliquot 1 mL, 0.5 mL minimum. Specimen can be stored at room temperature for up to 3 days or up to 7 days refrigerated. Freeze sample if stored more than 7 days.

Shipping Instructions:

Ship at refrigerated or frozen temperature.

Test Performed at or Referral Lab

Specialty Core
(UMMC-East Bank)

Interpretive

Reference Range:

Less than 8.0 mIU/mL

Nonreactive

8.00 or greater to 11.99
mIU/mL

Indeterminate

12.0 mIU/mL or greater

Reactive

Assay does not differentiate between vaccines and natural
infections.

For diagnostic purposes, results should be used in conjunction
with patient history and other hepatitis markers for diagnosis of acute and
chronic infection. A non-reactive test result does not exclude the possibility
of exposure to hepatitis B virus.

A reactive result does not exclude co-infection by another
hepatitis virus.